In the year 1478, the lives of Spain’s inhabitants, including the conquered lands of the “Americas”, were changed forever with the advent of the Spanish Inquisition.

Even now, 200 years on from the Spanish Inquisition, the locations affected appear to be poorer, less educated, and less trusting.

Read real cases of the Spanish Inquisition, and see images of original documents, including the inquisition a Mexican silversmith accused of wearing unsensible shoes.

Conservative magazine National Review published an op-ed defending the Spanish Inquisition, lamenting that opinions were formed by propaganda.

National Review columnist defends the Spanish Inquisition Ed Condon claims legal system behind persecution of the Jews ‘was in many ways ahead of its time’ ...

In Elizabethan and Protestant propaganda, the Spanish Empire, and hence the Inquisition, figured as a grave evil threat.

Astonishingly, Condon says that the Inquisition was created to protect Spanish Jews, who were forced to convert to Christianity under threat of expulsion or death.

The anti-Spanish Black Legend was one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in world history.

Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities is on display at the New Mexico History Museum through December 31.

It's not often that cultural and religious persecution makes countries more diverse, but the Spanish Inquisition might have done just that. One in five Spaniards and Portuguese has a Jewish ...